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    Farm Street Hockley

    Actually the Linforths I have described were both called John. Mary Ann had a brother called Joseph who would have been 23 at the time of this advert. A bit young to be an Innkeeper? May have been an Uncle perhaps??
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    Farm Street Hockley

    Thanks very much Mike. Your logic is sound I think. And it also gives me a good idea that my Great Great Grandparents, William Henry Watson and Mary Ann Lichfield would have known each other from the ages of 7 or 8. They married in 1863 about six months before my Great Grandmother Alexandra was...
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    Farm Street Hockley

    Thank you so much for all your messages and help. The photos too. Now the note about the Castle Tavern and Joseph Linforth is very interesting. William Watson was the landlord according to Dix's directory in 1858. His wife Mary Ann, née Linforth died on 3rd September 1858 after "a long and...
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    Farm Street Hockley

    Thank you so much for all your messages and help. The photos too. Now the note about the Castle Tavern and Joseph Linforth is very interesting. William Watson was the landlord according to Dix's directory in 1858. His wife Mary Ann, née Linforth died on 3rd September 1858 after "a long and...
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    Farm Street Hockley

    Hi. New to the forum and I've found it really interesting to read about a street that has lost so much of its original character. I know that my Great Great Great Grandparents were among the first proprietors of the Queen's Head, 381 Farm Street. William Watson (born 1821, by trade an...
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